Re: [Ganglia-general] gmond :: clarification needed for deaf and mute options

2013-07-26 Thread Nikhil
btw, I wish Oreilly gives me discounts for recommending to buy their Ganglia book ;-) On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Nikhil wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > Looks like the mcast configuration you are intending to use, should work. > Besides the number of nodes, its the number of metrics from each node

Re: [Ganglia-general] gmond :: clarification needed for deaf and mute options

2013-07-26 Thread Nikhil
Hi Adrian, Looks like the mcast configuration you are intending to use, should work. Besides the number of nodes, its the number of metrics from each node and overall, the payload per metric data that should also be taken into consideration. Also, as I said, I would use a mix and match of deaf/lis

Re: [Ganglia-general] gmond :: clarification needed for deaf and mute options

2013-07-26 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 07/25/2013 07:37 PM, Nikhil wrote: > gmond aggregator is the node which has all the metrics (all the > gmond instances send the metrics to this gmond node), it need not be > restarted every time a reporting node(clients) are added/removed. The > problem happens when the aggregator node goes down

Re: [Ganglia-general] gmond :: clarification needed for deaf and mute options

2013-07-25 Thread Nikhil
Inline.. On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > On 07/25/2013 12:41 PM, Nikhil wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > Hi! > > > concerns in the architecture. Ganglia works well with the multicast > > configuration as is by default. If the number of nodes in the cluster > the thing is that th

Re: [Ganglia-general] gmond :: clarification needed for deaf and mute options

2013-07-25 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 07/25/2013 12:41 PM, Nikhil wrote: > Hi Adrian, Hi! > concerns in the architecture. Ganglia works well with the multicast > configuration as is by default. If the number of nodes in the cluster the thing is that the clusters (the worker nodes) are separated physically or logically (vlans or sep

Re: [Ganglia-general] gmond :: clarification needed for deaf and mute options

2013-07-25 Thread Nikhil
Hi Adrian, You have got it right. Let me try to put some notes I had of this recently. These options are usually useful when you have large base of ganglia installation expanding to many number of data_sources or nodes or metrics. These offer flexibility to address some of the scalability concern

[Ganglia-general] gmond :: clarification needed for deaf and mute options

2013-07-24 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! It is not clear to me what and how data circulate between gmonds. So .. so for i understand this (for simplicity lets consider unicast) : 1. udp channels are used for actual data traffic (push architecture) 1.1 gmond nodes send data with the send parameters from udp_send_channel 1.2 the aggr